From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 23067 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2021 01:31:53 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 21 Mar 2021 01:31:53 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id B74E993D6D; Sun, 21 Mar 2021 11:31:51 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD90593D1B; Sun, 21 Mar 2021 11:31:29 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 9783D93D1B; Sun, 21 Mar 2021 11:31:27 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0CFB593D06 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2021 11:31:27 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id 5251635E34F; Sat, 20 Mar 2021 18:31:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2021 18:31:26 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Message-ID: <20210321013126.GY2912@mcvoy.com> References: <20210320115018.GA9713@naleco.com> <20210320151632.GM2912@mcvoy.com> <20210321001843.GX2912@mcvoy.com> <20210321011217.GA60525@eureka.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210321011217.GA60525@eureka.lemis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Subject: Re: [TUHS] Micnet Was: Re: Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse! X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org, Josh Good Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" So this is just me, I'm not a fan of SCO even though I was the guy that added TCP/IP to that OS. SCO just felt like it was the back burner. Sun felt like it was the front burner that was pushing things forward. SCO was the team that said they had this and did nothing with it. On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 12:12:17PM +1100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Saturday, 20 March 2021 at 17:18:43 -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > > Yeah, but wouldn't that mean that SCO Unix had to be open sourced? > > Or did they buy the rights? > > They didn't "open source" SCO, but in January 2002 they released > "ancient Unix" under a "BSD-style" license. See > http://www.lemis.com/grog/UNIX/ > But I'm sure everybody knows that. > > > While I mostly can't believe anyone would want SCO Unix, I do know that > > they ran a lot of cash registers, or maybe they were the server, I dunno, > > somehow point of sale and SCO was a thing a long time ago. So maybe it > > is a legacy thing? > > I haven't been following SCO recently, but at some point they had > taken UnixWare from Novell. I'm sure that, too, is common knowledge. > > Greg > -- > Sent from my desktop computer. > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. > See complete headers for address and phone numbers. > This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program > reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA -- --- Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm